The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another : wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads : and for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.

Series:

• Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Roads--England--Tables.
• Roads.
• Great Britain--Description and travel.
• Great Britain.
• Great Britain--Distances, etc.
• England.

Genre:

• Tables.
• Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 254 id est 256 pages) : illustrations, folded map

Other Title:

Most exact description of the roads of England.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Ilive for Abel Swall, and sold by Tim. Child ..., and R. Knaplock ..., 1699.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Advertisement: pages 254.
• The tables (pages 193-254) have special title page not included in the paging: Tables containing an exact delineation of the roads of England, according to Mr. Ogilby's actual survey ... London, 1699.
• An abridgment of the 1674 folio edition, the title of which is not known. Two versions of Ogilby's original work, both in folio, were issued in 1675, the "Britannia, volume the first",
• Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 723:19) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

• Wing O184
• Arber's Term cat. III 139

OCLC:

12962064

Access Restriction:

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